New Apple macOS Big Sur feature to hamper adware operations
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Everything you need to know about viruses, trojans and malicious software Cyber attacks and malware are one of the biggest threats on the internet. This ability was previously a core feature of macOS enterprise package, which allows system administrators to deploy new configurations company-wide via automated scripts. However, the ability to deploy a new profile config via the command-line has also been abused by malware gangs or adware strains, who used it because it was silent and didnt require any type of user interaction. "As of macOS Big Sur, you will no longer be able to completely install profiles using Terminal," Kevin Milden, Interface Designer at Apple, announced in a talk at the WWDC 2020 conference last week. "Apple has done EXACTLY what I was hoping they would do to cope with the plague of adware installing malicious configuration profiles," Thomas Reed, Director of Mac & Mobile at Malwarebytes, said in a tweet last week.
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